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> However, if, for example, Cyrus the Great did not help build the Jewish Second Temple And again, who was convincing Cyrus to do this? Why not call them the "
by anonymouskimmer 3y ago
> However, if, for example, Cyrus the Great did not help build the Jewish Second Temple
And again, who was convincing Cyrus to do this? Why not call them the "great men" instead? Had Nebuchadnezzar the second never destroyed the Jewish temple would Cyrus had spoken as he did about the Jewish god? Had Cyrus not ordered it rebuilt, isn't it likely the Jews still would have survived to rebuild it later on?
There's a real question whether Jesus existed. One alternative explanation I've seen is that he was invented by one of the Flavian Roman emperors in order to more firmly draw the Jews into the empire. Not being a historian or even historical fictionist I could see something like this happening even without Cyrus.
- satvikpendem 3y agoMaybe yes, maybe no, it is not known and really, it's unknowable how the arc of history would have turned out had events been different. But it is not reasonable to say that their actions did not affect and influence the world, at their level of political power.
- krapp 3y agoAs far as I know, it isn't controversial amongst scholars whether Jesus existed - the consensus is that there was an actual teacher around whom the cult of Christianity formed. Obviously this consensus doesn't regard supernatural claims with any validity, nor the content of any Gospel as being historically accurate.